Rockport man sentenced to nine years for child pornography Thursday

ROCKPORT - A Rockport man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Thursday for possession of child pornography.

Nicholas Brown, 25, pleaded guilty to having images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct on Jan. 20, 2011, and was sentenced to nine years and two months.

Senior U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack also ordered Brown a life term of supervised released and ordered him to register as a sex offender.

Brown admitted he possessed more than 100 videos of child pornography. Those videos were discovered during an investigation conducted by U.S. Marshals into the whereabouts of a sex offender Brown was living with.

Brown consented to a search of computers in his residence. The computers were turned over to the Corpus Christi Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which discovered the child pornography.

Brown admitted to constructing and being the sole user of the computer.